The Gulag Ameripelago: US Incarceration Surpasses Russia's

Remember when Americans used to mock Russia (f/k/a the USSR) for being one big Gulag prison colony? Those were the good days. One thing is sure: they no longer "hate us for our freedom." On the other hand, if instead of prison, one were to write in "minimum security, free room and board, out early for good behavior" (especially if the world's most famous hedge fund will fund all your cash needs for the rest of your life on the 'other side' just as we predicted three weeks ago), then they would certainly hate us for our benefits.

Though it is important to mention that unprofitable and unpopular wars are usually so because they have started well but then gone badly, often knocking an agressor completely out of the timeline of history in the process.It is therefore no surprise really that we have few accounts of how terrible war was, seeing as how the winners write the history books, and for them war worked out very nicely indeed.

So of course, by the lesson of history, more of the same.

This will never end I am afraid because no end is possible. There is no way to first learn first-hand the lesson and then also teach from that place of understanding.

Unless we have a very large global war, and everyone suffers from it equally. Then yes perhaps I would like to read something from the history books afterwards.

China isn't ideal, but the incentives aren't as perverse. The prisons are run by the government, in the US they are largely privatized, or pseudo privatized, which is not the same thing as free market. When you have private companies operating under perverse government incentives, you get this. They are incentivized to lock up more people, "customers". It's fascism, plain and simple. In China, there is a negative incentive to locking people up, because it's seen as an outright cost. The fact that they have political prisoners, is a different problem. That's a structural issue, which will sort out in time, probably interluded by a bloody uprising.

No, we should release 80% of them. Anyone who hasn't violated someone else's rights is not a legitimate criminal. To be charged with a felony, there should be a tangible and specific victim, otherwise, it's just bullshit, and likely shouldn't be a crime in the first place.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Four of the five Deutsche Bank employees arrested for money laundering or obstruction of justice related to a carbon trading scheme will remain in jail, the Frankfurt prosecutor said on Thursday.

One Deutsche Bank employee was allowed home on health grounds, the prosecutor said.

The employees were arrested during raids on Germany's flagship lender on Wednesday.

It is too early to conclude whether the raids, by 500 tax inspectors, police and prosecutors, would yield any new evidence, Frankfurt prosecutor Guenter Wittig said, adding, "This will take months. I cannot comment about an ongoing investigation."

The prosecutor's probe is focused on tax evasion linked to tax credits and a scheme involving the trading of carbon permits.

america is a fascist terrorist state ruled with the creators of nazism - wall street plutocrats, especially the rockefellers who were ably supported by the bush crime syndicate....jesse ventura has documented the concentration camps all over america and yet there is no protest - no where!!!!

Meanwhile the niggers and spicz are at each others throats while the kikes rip off the whole works.. But damn it if we just ignore the facts they will go away? I want my fuzzyland where everyone loves each other.. waaaaa.. So tell me something. Is it or is it not true that nations are built by like minded individuals, either race and or religion? True or not?

Growth Business ... in California 900, prison guards make more than $200,000, yes that's 1/5 of a million each and every year ... hence the movie "The Green Mile". This may be one of the reasons why CA has a 500,000,000,000 (500 Billion) underfunded pension problem.

All those prisoners and not one TBTF bankster among them. I would like to see Brian T. Moynihan and a few others looking out from behind bars. That guy seems to be a real doucher, he was getting his ass kicked by MBIA today and as usual deploys some legal chicanery to delay and confuse the situation. Anybody have any opinions about the ongoing MBIA V BofA battle?

"Louisiana is the world's prison capital. The state imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of its U.S. counterparts. First among Americans means first in the world. Louisiana's incarceration rate is nearly five times Iran's, 13 times China's and 20 times Germany's.

The hidden engine behind the state's well-oiled prison machine is cold, hard cash. A majority of Louisiana inmates are housed in for-profit facilities, which must be supplied with a constant influx of human beings or a $182 million industry will go bankrupt"

There is nothing to admire about the soviets, Putin and how their hateful hierarchy robs the people. The people kill themselves in record numbers, and that keeps the prison population lower.

Death by one's own hand is preferable to death by statists...so it seems in the former Soviet Union where Putin puts 'Pussy Riot' girl band into a horrible medieval jail for daring to sing against him.

CONgress and its legal attack dogs are venal, but less so than the corporatist rulers in the socialist and communist world.